All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble...A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.

Fire is the best of servents; but what a master!

Every pitifulest whipster that walks within a skin has had his head filled with the notion that he is, shall be, or by all human and divine laws ought to be, '…

'A fair day's wages for a fair day's work': it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

He saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that nothing was done quickly, without labor, that it had to undergo a thousand fondl…

In order to get what we've got, Anita, we have, in effect, traded these people out of what was the most important thing on earth to them - the feeling of being…